#TALKS is a PROTO - discussion on how design can affect 'Change in the Built Environment'. #TALKS, the keynote and the moderated discussion with the local design professionals, will inspire us how we can imagine and mobilize CHANGE!
Powerful insights to Change the Built Environment in Winnipeg
- Real World insights from C40 Vancouver -
Keynote Speaker
Chris Higgins
Chris Higgins, CPHC, LEED AP Homes Green Building Planner City of Vancouver Chris is an accomplished project manager who has developed a number of successful programs that overcome market barriers and result in lower energy buildings. He possesses a well-developed knowledge of energy use in residential buildings and has the experience to know the policy triggers to encourage action. As a Green Building Planner at the City of Vancouver, Chris develops and implements building bylaw, policy, and programs to achieve 100% renewable new buildings while at the same time helping to reduce greenhouses gases from existing homes. He works to remove barriers for Passive House projects, and possesses an understanding of regulatory and incentive options a city has at its disposal. Chris is a spokesperson at national conferences and to various media outlets. Chris worked for the Canada Green Building Council from 2008-2014, developed the LEED Canada for Homes program for single along with multifamily homes and supported its delivery in all provinces and two territories. Chris has served on the board of directors for Passive House Canada. Prior to that Chris fund his love of better buildings while working as Mountain Equipment Coop’s store planner. Chris is a Newfoundlander but has made British Columbia his home for the last two decades.
PROGRAM DETAILS
- DATE: Thursday, September 26th
- TIME: 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm
- LOCATION: 5th Floor, 311 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2B9 | Stantec
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
- 4:00 Refreshments
- 4:30 Introduction
-Lisa Landrum | Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba
-Greeting from Al Dueck | Duxton Windows and Doors - 4:35 Keynote
Chris Higgins, Green Building Planner with the City of Vancouver - 5:15 Responses
Crystal Bornais | CaGBC Regional Manager
Melissa McAlister | Prairie Architects
Michael Banman | Stantec - 6:00 Open discussion
Moderator: Lisa Landrum
“Winnipeg is one of the coldest cities in the world and a natural place for our industry to deliver very real improvements to the building envelopes of new and/or existing building retrofits,” says Al Dueck, President of DUXTON Windows & Doors. “We believe this seminar is of interest to all stakeholders in Manitoba – especially including designers, property owners, and managers, policy planners and implementers, government officials, architects and engineers. We believe this is an opportunity for a diverse group in Manitoba to gain insights into the Vancouver success and how we might be challenged to achieve the same results!”
The city of Vancouver – the only C40 city in Canada – has stepped forward with a very aggressive commitment toward achieving a 100% renewable goal. In the process, the industry in Vancouver and other parts of British Columbia are seeing a large volume of Passive rated projects as well as various other performance-oriented products/building project results.
Additionally, the industry in BC is realizing that the brightest and most progressive businesses are benefiting very practically from this environmental commitment. Chris Higgins has been deeply involved in many different aspects of “green building codes” as well as Step Change development and implementation. At this point, Chris is also uniquely able to discuss the net results that are accruing to a greater number of stakeholders from the community to project owners to building industry suppliers. In fact, his expertise is being “tapped into” by a variety of designers and policy makers including the City of Edmonton, another “4 season dominated city” in the great white North!
#TALKS is sponsored by DUXTON Windows and Doors and Hosted by Stantec Manitoba
